Gallery

Mary Crutchfield (Painting)
Elizabeth City, North Carolina

 


 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Mary Crutchfield, a native of Arlington, Va., makes her home in Elizabeth City, NC. She received her education at Radford College, Va., the University of Arizona in Tucson, and UNC in Chapel Hill, NC, receiving BA and MS degrees. She has studied watermedia with Alex Powers, Charles Reid, Ralph Smith, Carole Barnes, Katherine Chang Liu, Mary Todd Beam, Glenn Bradshaw and others. She is a long-standing member of the Studio Gallery in Elizabeth City, and conducts painting workshops in the community, North Carolina and Virginia.

Crutchfield has exhibited and won awards in many local, regional, national and international juried shows, and is represented in numerous museum, corporate and private collections in the US and abroad. Former juried shows include the Southern Society Watercolor Exhibits, the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, d'Art Mid-Atlantic Exhibitions, the San Diego, Colorado, Kentucky, Pikes Peak, Mississippi, Montana, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New England and North Carolina juried watercolor exhibitions. She is a signature member of the Pennsylvania, Mississippi, North Carolina and Georgia Watercolor Societies, as well as the International Association of Experimental Artists. She recently had work in an exhibition for the blind, which traveled through Germany. She has exhibited in many one-woman shows, including the Louise Jones Brown Gallery at Duke University, NC, and the Horace Williams House Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC.

The current abstract and layered paintings are visual extensions of lyrical song and dance. They touch on an idea or concept, then dance about in their own rhythm aided by the dynamics of discovery. After much concentration regarding design concepts, color theory, space and shape relationships, the works almost seem to paint themselves."

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